365 Pink Feather Boas All in a Row - Day 21 (Thursday 21 Jan 2010) : Planning and Plotting and Catering

Who doesn't love a gay old time?

We all do right? Well some more than others, it's true. But it's we gay men who truly love going over the top, putting frou-frou and bling onto anything that moves, zhoushing and counter-zhoushing, all in the name of a camp good time.

In the spirit of all that's camp and fabulous, my beautiful guy (above in yellow) and I met with our fellow conspirators tonight for our second planning meeting for this year's Fair Fay. Last year we had a tent festooned with gorgeous purple and white cloth, lime green tableclothes and hot pink feather boa trim on cake stands, and this year is going to be all vibrant primary colours - red, blue and yellow and all sorts of Toyland fun and colour. It should be great!

One of the guys, Ian (who, along with his partner Bill, hosted the meeting at their home - final photo in the blog is of them - and gave us a delicious BBQ'd dinner) is going to go as a Drag-in-a-Box and has constructed this elaborate, shimmering box of luminous colour that will make him the costumed gay of the day! The rest of us have a lot of work to match him! His cake stand too is simply gorgeous and very much in the Toyland theme.

We made lots of progress, working out catering, some of the tent decorating, costumes (except my beautiful guy and I who are bereft of inspiration at this point), and even the beginning of a running sheet for the day. A running sheet in the heat that Fair Day normally attracts? No thanks - I think it should be a walking sheet.

Anyway, we're on our way and I know it's going t be jaw-droppingly, eye-poppingly, colour-riffically fabulous!!! Party on!!